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Shalini Saran (New Delhi, India - 1951)
Shalini gave up a full-time job in a publishing house and has worked as a freelance writer and photographer since the early eighties. She has had no formal training in photography but in 1981 happened to meet the French photographer, Roland Michaud, who became her teacher and taught her most essentially, about light.
She has traveled extensively in India, photographing people, aspects of traditional lifestyles, places of religious and historical interest, craftspersons and rural and medieval architecture. Her attempt has been to capture the texture of Indian life—its overwhelming variety, its contradictions, its idiosyncrasies and vivacity. The photograph, the 'end result', she feels, a part of the experience of photography; the whole experience encompasses life as one observes it around the frame, too.
Shalini’s articles and photographs have been widely published in books and magazines. Her photographs have also been published by the Ministry of Tourism and she has participated in Pratibimba, an exhibition sent to the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, for the Festival of India, and then to India House, London. She has been awarded second and third prizes in the National Fotofest competition. Over the last few years, she has been more drawn to abstract forms, to the exploration of another dimension of colour and form, light and texture.
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